A team that averages crowds of over nine thousand should not be relegated from League One.

We’re told to blame our misfortune on the fact we don’t have "access to all matchday revenues".

I’m about as sick of hearing that mantra as I am with “strong and stable”, and I believe it even less.

Even if those revenues were as vital as Tim Fisher says they are, it should be Sisu footing the bill for the shortfall. It was their failed negotiations that got us into this situation in the first place.

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The idea of asking fans to pay for their catastrophic failure is so ludicrous, I wouldn’t be surprised to see it on the side of a bus.

Who knows what kind of squad Sisu’s austerity drive will leave us with next year. A clue will be the outcome of the ongoing contract negotiations with the likes of George Thomas and Ryan Haynes. I really hope we can persuade them both to stay, as well as the others.

Coventry City's George Thomas battles for the ball with Rochdale's Callum Camps

I will miss Ruben Lameiras. He plays football like I play Fifa: hitting triangle as soon as he receives possession to play the perfect through-ball.

Unfortunately, he also defends like I do on Fifa: flailing around like a puppy off the lead without getting near the opposition, before slide tackling no one.

The thing about Lameiras, though, is that he was one of the only players who I could watch in full knowledge that I could never do some of the things he does on the pitch. Given the brutish nature of League Two, I fear it might be a while before I can say that again about another City player…

But back to our wonderful owners. Sisu’s plan is clearly for the football club to break even. In the meantime, their latest legal challenge plays out. What happens on the pitch is merely a backdrop against which the real game is being played – by their team of lawyers. Selling the club now might have the effect of cutting short their compensation claim, which fattens further as our beloved club continues its decline.

Sisu chief executive Joy Seppala

The problem is wider than Coventry City. In a lot of ways, football mirrors society. The rich elite at the top of the Premier League earning and paying millions, while the poor get ever poorer. Eventually we’ll end up with a Premier League and a Sunday league and nothing in between. The demise of the clubs we love disregarded by the authorities who profit nicely from the whole rigged system.

Commercialism is so rampant in football that I can’t even watch my team take a corner without being told to buy something.

But before I go all-out Chomsky, I will say that there is hope. While we have the fanbase we do, there is always hope. And if this season has taught us anything it’s that Coventry City fans are some of the most dedicated and sacrificial in the country.